Grimm’s Gardens Blog

I absolutely love cut flowers. I look forward to bringing in a new bouquet into my house every chance I get. If you want to bring some of your landscape flowers indoors but don’t know how to, you are in the right place. (Click to our second edition of Floral Design) Materials:

Friend or Foe? Today we identified a caterpillar on our Baptisia or Blue False Indigo plants. This cute critter is known as a Genista Broom Month. It gets its name from the Broom Plant, Genista, in which it feeds. It is native to the United States and is prominent in the Southern U.

Annual Sneak Peak! Hello! I’m very excited to bring you a preview of the annuals that will be offered next year in greenhouses around the country! (Although I hope you do stop in at ours!) Yesterday, June 24, 2013, Grimm’s Gardens sent myself and three other staff members

Check Your Shrubs and Trees for Bagworms! We have had many customers begin to see bagworms. Bagworms are usually found on evergreen trees but will feed on just about anything (We noticed some on a sycamore tree). If you look closely, you may see the small bags on your trees. They m

Summer is here and the heat is on! Over the course of the last two summers I have noticed the good and the bad of perennials in my gardens. I don’t have an irrigation system, and I rarely water after planting, even when it gets hot. My plants seem to perform in the heat, really thrivi

If there is one thing I have learned, it is that a beautiful landscape will never be beautiful without a healthy, green lawn to compliment it. Irrigation plays a critical role in keeping turf green throughout the heat of July and August. Here at Grimm’s Gardens, we install Wea

We recieve a lot of trade magazines and emails here at the office that give great insight into industry trends. This week’s email from the Landscape Insider from Ball Publishing has some great suggestions on improving your living space with hardscapes. Hardscapes increase beau

Our regular website visitors will noticed something new when they came to our site today – a completely new look! We’ve been working hard to get things in place for an exciting new site up and running before the season starts and we made it! A lot of what you will see is s